| Everyone claims to have the best recipe or technique | | | | Almost every weekend I compete against 20 - 50 |
| for cooking the best BBQ sauce, or the best BBQ | | | | guys who work just as hard as I do on my BBQ. |
| ribs, or the best BBQ meat. | | | | Almost every weekend I put my methods and my |
| And really, it's a pride thing. We all want to be able to | | | | recipes up on the chopping block to be judged. |
| produce the best BBQ because America's culture is | | | | And I have to tell you, when you get a group of |
| rooted in BBQ. | | | | guys together - and put bragging rights and prize |
| But the truth is that there is a LOT of bad BBQ out | | | | money on the line... weekend after weekend... the |
| there... in restaurants and in backyards all across this | | | | quality of BBQ that gets produced is taken to a |
| country. And if you are a connoisseur of BBQ like | | | | WHOLE NEW LEVEL! |
| me, then I am sure you have been unfortunate | | | | And while the guys on TV and the restaurants strive |
| enough to try a bitter, tough rib or a mushy, | | | | to meet a certain level of quality within their BBQ, |
| tasteless piece of pork. | | | | Competition cooks have to constantly try new ideas |
| There are even guys out there that claim to be BBQ | | | | and work to improve every little detail of their BBQ - |
| "gurus"... these guys write books on BBQ, they post | | | | because that is what it takes to win. And believe me; |
| recipes online and they even host TV shows! And, of | | | | every guy out there wants to win. |
| course, they all claim to have the best BBQ in the | | | | Basically, competition BBQ is the best BBQ that is |
| world. | | | | being produced in the United States today... simply |
| Now I am sure that several of these "gurus" recipes | | | | because it HAS to be the best - or you don't win. |
| and slow-smoked techniques are good... but I can | | | | But it's unfortunate that most people will never have |
| guarantee you that they have not put those recipes, | | | | access to competition-quality BBQ - or |
| methods and techniques through rigorous fire of BBQ | | | | competition-quality recipes and techniques. And that is |
| Competition. | | | | why I developed my website... to provide you with |
| For the past 10 years, I have spent almost every | | | | the secrets, the methods and the techniques you |
| weekend of the summer either at a BBQ contest - | | | | need to produce competition-quality BBQ at home. |
| or practicing my BBQ skills at home. | | | | |